Although it refuses to leak, the new Hold Steady is streaming in its entirety at Vagrant. We've heard about as much of it as you have, but from the first twenty seconds, it sounds like every music journo is about to simultaneously cream their shorts.
Boys And Girls In America is out 10/3.
Posted at 4:41 PM
Tags: Samuel L. Jackson | The Hold Steady
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"Although it refuses to leak"
I've had it for two weeks. Check the torrents.
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Actually, all the critics I've read are saying it's one of the biggest disappointments of the year.
And Peter's right...it leaked two weeks ago and is very easy to find now.
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so these guys are like 40, right? and they're singing about "boys and girls in america" and parties and girlfriends and getting high? kind of creepy.
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I think rolling stone and pitchfork are freaking out about how good the record is. I want to hate it but kind of enjoy. I have to stream some more though.
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I'm a detecting some reactionary anti-Hold Steady sentiments? Or is that more reactionary Pitchfork hype bands sentiments? Either way, I think that's lame. I'm really loving the album, though.
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I cannot stand this band. This is not a reaction to hype. I just think they sound like the most boring bar band in the world fronted by David Lowery's retarded younger brother.
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Yeah, it's a shame to hate on this album just to spite pitchfork and whoever.
Hold Steady is just a good rock and roll band who manages to both be both ridiculous and transcendent at the same time.
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Riduculous and transcendent? You sound like one of them...
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Ridiculous and transcendent? You sound like one of them...
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god, the comments on this site get worse by the day. i just got the album earlier recently and I think it's by far the best thing they've done..."Party Pit" rules!
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sounds pretty fucking good to me. you queers can have devendra banhart and sufjan and all that shit, i'll take the steady any day.
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shitty webrips leaked 2 weeks ago... and get off your fucking indie rock high horse and realize the "boys" and "girls" and "highs" aren't autobiographical... just like the catholic whore wasn't on Seperation Sunday.
Top 5 Albums of 2006.
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you're all fucking hipster pieces of shit. fuck you!
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do any of you think before you type. more importantly, those who are shitting on the album... listen to it a couple times before you open your mouth.
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This album fucking owns.
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Thank God some people got on here to defend this record, it's simply awesome, best rock album of the year.
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BEST OF 2006
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These guys are a total Killers ripoff.
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Which sites have the torrent? I've been looking for weeks and can't find it anywhere. I guess I'm looking in the wrong place?
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If you're having to ask, you probably can't use those sites anyway.
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the Killers are total hacks
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"and get off your fucking indie rock high horse and realize the "boys" and "girls" and "highs" aren't autobiographical... just like the catholic whore wasn't on Seperation Sunday."
Exactly.
And yeah, this is top 10 material.
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Don't get me wrong, I love these guys. I am from Minneapolis and was into Lifter Puller (better live than THS). And this is my least favorite Hold Steady album. Pitchfork loving it so much is more of an image thing I think - always mentioning how they had it but nobody else did. The song 'Freakout Tent' is the worst thing Craig Finn has ever done. There is some good stuff on new album but a disapointment.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBAY!
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"sounds pretty fucking good to me. you queers can have devendra banhart and sufjan and all that shit, i'll take the steady any day."
ummm. this is the lamest comment I"ve ever seen.
the hold steady just sound like shit, if you are queer or not.
there's no way around their lame guitar riffs and lyrics
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dudes. i understand that the lyrics and topics of the songs aren't "autobiographical." which is all the more reason why it's lame for a bunch of middle-aged guys to sing (oops, i mean talk-sing) about them. maybe i'll start a band and sing about colonoscopies and back pain.
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maybe you should go to tower records and pick up the new Nelly Furtado CD in the process.
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I got bored of it real quick but made myself listen to it a couple times, as per request of every fan on this board, and yet I only grew to see every sound and guitar chord as predictable as the new Killers album being bad.
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listend to one and 1/2 songs and it seems a bit like "the boys are back in town" to me.
if there was mass hype over this i would be further confused.
not terrible, didn't listen to the whole record but i guess i expected something different, not ever hearing their music before.
wasn't compelled to listen to more.
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fucking garbage. didnt like separation sunday, dont like this. totally boring. yes i listened to it before i posted. shut up. this is bad music.
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haha i know these guys and they wouldn't "rip off" the killers. they probably have never heard the killers. and they would take the thin lizzy comparison as a compliment.
fucking great album, best lyrics ever.
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QUOTE FROM ABOVE - "so these guys are like 40, right? and they're singing about boys and girls in america and parties and girlfriends and getting high? kind of creepy."
Would you tell this to Springsteen?
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So if I don't thnk just like you and think this is the album of the year I must listen to Nelly Furtado? Wow, some belief sysytem you must have. The new CD is my least fav Craig Finn release but it's still heads and shoulders above The Killers finest moments.
As for the claims that The Hold Steady ripped of The Killers is a laugh. Let's see here... I heard the Hold Steady demos summer 2003. The internet tells me The Killer first release was 2004. Lifter Puller's first 7" was '95. Hm.
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Are you guys all 15 years old? Maybe acknowledge that The Hold Steady neither "rule" nor "sound like shit" but rather are a band with a very distinctive sound that will appeal to some people's tastes more than others? Just like any music?
Sigh.
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Been leaked for weeks, yo.
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It's amazing what flash can do...
http://www.vagrant.com/holdsteady_listeningparty/audiofiles/1.mp3
put that in, let it load and then save the page/file, then change 1 to 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and you've got the album fresh fom the horses mouth.
Happy holidays folks
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"Would you tell this to Springsteen?"
Yes. That's why he's only allowed to sing old-timey folk songs now.
PS. I'm PRETTY sure the person who wrote that they're a "Killers ripoff" was joking.
PPS. I am a fan of Nelly Furtado's earlier work. I mean, I can totally tell that Craig Finn's vocals are auto-tuned all over the place on this new album. (jk guys!!!!1)
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Too much keyboard = too cheesy
Guitar solos = ROCK!
First two Hold Steady album = Classics
New one - eh, i could take it or leave
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Too much keyboard = cheesy
Guitar solos = ROCK!
First two Hold Steady album = Classics
New one - eh, i could take it or leave it
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Massive Nights is the only good song
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your wrong
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organ break in chips ahoy is boss...solos and brass in hot soft light are bosser. i gotta spend time with finn records, cause they're total Lyrics Shows, and cf ain't always perfectly clear in his delivery.
i gotta admit, tho, sometimes i wonder if i'd be AS into the band if someone else was singing. they're such a total-package thing.
btw: it's been publicized in this very blog that our homegirl nelly furtado doesn't use autotune.
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I love The Hold Steady and think the first two records were great. First time through the new one, I think it is OK. I will give it a lot more listens and hear the new stuff live tomorrow night. They are a good band. Have a few drinks, loosen up, and go see them live. That's where they really excel.
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more importantly, there's a new, TEN MINUTE Sufjan Stevens track up here: http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-sufjan-stevens-majesty-snowbird.html
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I can't get past the horrible vocals.
I don't mind the bar rock sound, that's actually kind of a positive though my preference is for a trashier sound. I like my rock like I like my vag, loose and sloppy. Well, not really. About the vag anyway.
Um, yeah. Awful singer, possibly decent record, I'll never know because I'm too busy trying to figure out what other bad singer he reminds me of, is it that big Blues Traveler guy?
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I do like the record, but clem, is it counting crows you're thinking of? I can hear some of that in his voice at times.
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... when he sort of sings instead of rambling
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yeah ughh i've totally never gotten this band AT ALL. their songs/vocals have that thing where you cant just be indifferent but actively annoyed by them...and NY Times has a big-ass article on them today
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/arts/music/01sann.html?ref=arts
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It certainly isn't shit and it isn't the greatest album of all time. Does everyone here think there opinion is law? Being a little pretensious arn't we?
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It's pretty clear that Separation Sunday > Almost Killed Me > Boys and Girls in America. The order of the first two could be swapped, but Boys and Girls is definitely the weakest of the three.
Anyway, that seems to be the consensus. Let's see if Pitchfork rates it appropriately.
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yes rachael.
i can't just sit on the sidelines, this band makes me actively agressively angry because it's so terrible.
I have to go protest in the streets. I WILL NOT REST UNTIL EVERYONE AGREES WITH ME
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I actually think that this one has the least skip-worthy tracks of any of the Hold Steady's albums. Then again, I don't have a blindingly irrational hate for bands that are even remotely touted by the "evil" Pitchfork.
Rock was the first thing I was ever into and there is nothing better to me than a good rock album. This is a good rock album.
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Link doesn't work anymore? Or is it blocked for us Europeans?!
Anyway, loving the fights over here.
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love the sarcasm but i just meant instead of being like 'yea this band's not for me' Hold Steady, for me are more a 'god this band really annoys me, cant even listen to the entire song kinda band...
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This stream of comments made me wonder if I was being closed-minded, so I went back and listened to "Separation Sunday" for like the 20th time. I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH I HATE THIS ALBUM.
I don't know if I've ever been this utterly mystified re: a band's appeal. I must be missing some critical gene or something.
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I don't understand why its being praised so much? Its not a terrible album but it doesnt really compare to Separion Sunday.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob7jyA8071Y&NR
PLEASE POST THIS!!!!!
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Not autobiographical?
haha
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rachael
I wasn't being sarcastic
I'm serious
HONESTLY
I want to just consistently hate on this band
why?
because they are the most god awful sounding crap I've ever had the misfortune to hear.
SERIOUSLY
NO JOKE
I AM NOTTTTT BEING SARCASTIC
i really am with you rachael
I can't say enough bad stuff about this band
nothing redeeming about them, down to their ugly mugs and lame moustaches
and it has NOTHING to do with PFORK b/c I like a lot of what that site hypes
this band is just pure, lame bar rock garbage
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9.4 BEST NEW MUSIC
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Oh no, Pitchfork likes black people music AND Thin Lizzy/Springsteen inspired classic rock. What's Stereogum gonna do?
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Reading this thread makes me miss the days when only like 20 people in your town liked the same bands and the rest had never heard of them.
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Forget Bush - It's bands like this that make the rest of the world hate America.
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